display wp custom posts by catgeory - wordpress

Question

Added this code to display wp custom post by category, but unable to get pagination to work when added posts_per_page="5"
<?php query_posts('post_type=encounters_news'); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php $terms = get_the_terms($post->ID, 'encounters_news_categories');
foreach($terms as $item):
if($item->slug == "chapter-news"):?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content-news', 'page' ); ?>
<?php //comments_template( '', true ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>
<?php encounters_content_nav( 'post-nav' ); ?>
Rewrote and change to this code
<?php
// set up or arguments for our custom query
$paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$post_type = 'encounters_news';
$tax = 'chapter-news';
$tax_terms = get_terms($tax);
if ($tax_terms) {
foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
$query_args = array(
'post_type' => $post_type,
'$tax' => $tax_term->slug,
'showposts' => 5,
'paged' => $paged
); wp_reset_query();
}}
// create a new instance of WP_Query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $query_args ); ?>
<?php if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); // run the loop ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'content-news', 'page' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php if ($the_query->max_num_pages > 1) { // check if the max number of pages is greater than 1 ?>
<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php echo get_previous_posts_link( '« Previous' ); // display newer posts link ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php echo get_next_posts_link( 'More »', $the_query->max_num_pages ); // display older posts link ?></div>
This code creates the pagination as desired, but displays all the Encounters News Categories instead of just the Chapter News category.
Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Resolved
<?php
$query = new WP_Query( array(
'post_type' => '', // name of post type.
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => '', // taxonomy name
'field' => '', // term_id, slug or name
'terms' => , // term id, term slug or term name
)
),'showposts' => 5,
'paged'=>$paged
) );
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
// do stuff here....
endwhile;
/**
* reset the orignal query
* we should use this to reset wp_query
*/
wp_reset_query();?>